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as in wreckage
the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed
found the wreck of the ship lying on the floor of the ocean
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as in collision
the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact
a dangerous stretch of roadway that has been the scene of numerous car wrecks
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as in to ruin
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
most of the furniture on the ground floor was wrecked by the floodwaters
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Recent Examples of wreck
Zac Jackson, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Located in shallow waters near Costa Rica’s Cahuita National Park, the wrecks were long thought to belong to pirate ships, according to local legend.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
Julia Ries, Outside Online, 16 May 2025
That will keep you from hiring a really talented person that brings in too much change at once and wrecks your dream team.
—William Vanderbloemen, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
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Noun
The Browns wouldn’t entertain his trade demand and plan to continue to have Garrett wreck opposing offenses.
—Zac Jackson, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Located in shallow waters near Costa Rica’s Cahuita National Park, the wrecks were long thought to belong to pirate ships, according to local legend.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
Verb
That might also wreck my microbiome and set off a cascade of inflammation in my body, says Kleiner.
—Julia Ries, Outside Online, 16 May 2025
That will keep you from hiring a really talented person that brings in too much change at once and wrecks your dream team.
—William Vanderbloemen, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wreck
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Crews and investigators spent days recovering the wreckage.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
8 May 2025
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The remains were found among the wreckage of the Emanuel Point II, a Spanish ship that sank in September 1559 near what is now Pensacola, Florida.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 May 2025
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The collision of the Cuauhtémoc with the Brooklyn Bridge comes just 16 months after a massive cargo ship plowed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
19 May 2025
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This replenishment likely comes from collisions between dwarf planets, cometary nuclei, micrometeoroids and other flotsam and jetsam lurking in the dark of the debris disk.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 May 2025
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Historical sources had recorded that two Danish slave vessels were shipwrecked off the coast of Central America in 1710: The Fridericus Quartus was set on fire, while the anchor rope of the Christianus Quintus was cut and the ship was swept away.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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Sawai's Mariko serves as a critical interpreter between the powerful Lord Yoshii Toranaga and an Englishman shipwrecked in Japan, John Blackthorne.—
Kimmy Yam,
NBC News,
6 Jan. 2025
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2025
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Thessaloniki, Greece Greece is an iconic travel destination with ancient history, ruins steeped in lore, and picture-perfect Mediterranean beaches.—
Kathleen Peddicord,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Species: The most valuable trees are hardy, durable, highly adaptable and won’t drop debris like nuts or pods everywhere.—
LEW SICHELMAN,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2025
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On both occasions, the rocket's upper stage shut down its engines prematurely and the vehicle lost control, breaking apart in the upper atmosphere and spreading debris near the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2025
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That same weekend, six people died in three separate crashes on north Texas roads, including a collision involving a wrong-way driver that left two dead in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 18, KXAS reported.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Members of Congress must listen to the experts — those of us who are first on the scene of a crash, those of us who conduct the investigations into the crashes and those of us who must tell families that their husband/wife, son/daughter, mother/father is not coming home.—
Art Bodenheimer,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 May 2025
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The former president, though, blamed Trump for scuttling a bipartisan agreement on border security, which would have given Biden an election year win on a primary issue in the campaign.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
8 May 2025
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The fallout from George's coal scuttling spree was captured in a video posted to Gregory's TikTok @athomewiththegregorys, which has amassed more than 200,000 views since being shared at the end of last month.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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An embarrassing, humbling, shocking Game 5 defeat showed that. All the same problems, the ones that destroyed Leaf team after Leaf team and ultimately ended Sheldon Keefe’s time as head coach, are emerging again at the worst possible time.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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At least 144 structures were destroyed and parts of Highway 44 were shut down, said St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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“Wreck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wreck. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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